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Marek, J. and Knizkova, H.THE JENGHIZ KHAN MINIATURES FROM THE COURT OF AKBAR THE GREAT London Spring Books 1963 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket Near fine hardbound book in very good condition dust jacket. White cloth boards adorned with ornamental arabic script in black and red. Gilt title in english on spine. Clean and tightly bound, with no sign of fading to color or shelfwear. Contents are also clean and crisp. Pictorial dust jacket is bright and clean, but has some minor shelfwear and two half-inch closed tears to edge. Color illustrations throughout of miniature paintings that incorporate the visual cultures and histories of Persia, Mongolia, and India. ; 4to
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30.00 USD

McClinton, Katharine MTHE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS OF LOUIS PRANG New York, NY Clarkson N. Potter 1973 0517504111 / 9780517504116 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket TIght, bright, clean hardback book with slight bumping to the top and bottom of the spine. Would be near fine except for former owner book stamp in three places and trace of erasure on front end paper. Clipped dust jacket has long closed tear with tape and several short closed tears and moderate edge wear. ; 4to; 240 pages
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42.00 USD

Minnich, Helen BentonJAPANESE COSTUME And the Makers of its Elegant Tradition Rutland, VT Charles E. Tuttle Company 1963 First Edition Hardcover SIGNED. This is a Signed First Edition hardcover book with a dust jacket and in a slipcase. The book was signed on the half-title page. The covers are a handsome purple and white clothe with silver metallic ink for the title and a cartouche. The book would be fine if not for a few small flaws (smudge, tear, crinkle, spot) at the middle of the book, scattered, between pages 165 and 172. They are possibly caused by the printing and binding of the book. The end papers are perfect, all other pages are fine. Crisp and clean. There no other marks of writing. There is a crinkle and closed tear to the dust jacket at the bottom rear corner and a faint touch of wear at other corners. Price clipped, crisp and clean. Metallic silver background with a metallic trim on a kimono image. Large, thick (374 pages) , tall (11 1/2") book . Profusely illustrated with black and white and quality color photos. Handome and well cared for. ; 4to; Signed by Author
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90.00 USD

Munsterberg, HugoTHE FOLK ARTS OF JAPAN Rutland, VT Charles E. Tuttle 1959 Third Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket A hardback book that would be near fine except for a touch of sunning at very edge of top and bottom of spine. Unclipped dust jacket would be near fine except jacket is made of rice paper and has a vertical crease in the paper that may have been in the paper since its manufacture. Book cloth is of Japanese design, with buckram spine. Rice paper end paper without marks or writing. Clean contents. Pr eface by Soetsu Yanagi. Glossy paper interior with color and b/w photos. ; Oblong 8vo
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24.00 USD

Narazaki, MuneshigeMASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E: EARLY PAINTINGS Tokyo Kodansha International Ltd. 1968 First Edition Hardcover Hardbound book with no slipcover or dustjacket. Binding is tight but boards are bowing out slightly. Contents are clean and crisp, with many lovely full-color reproductions of early Japanese paintings. Light cream-colored cloth boards with title in japanese script on the cover. Black color surrounding title is rubbing off, lightly staining surrounding cloth. A good copy for study or reading enjoyment. ; 4to; 96 pages
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25.00 USD

Neuhaus, EugenTHE ART OF THE EXPOSITION Personal Impressions of the Architecture, Ssculpture, Mural Decorations, Color Scheme & Other Aesthetic Aspects of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco Paul Elder And Company 1915 Third Edition Hardcover Very Good This is a hardcover book from the 1915 Exposition. Without a dust jacket. It is a tight, bright, clean book with beautiful photographs from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. There is a former owner name and date neatly written in old brown ink on the first blank page. The frontispiece photograph as a tiny corner crease and a find chip on the edge just above the crease. There are no other marks or writing. Near gift condition. The photgravure frontispiece has two tiny nicks and a tiny crease at the tip of one corner. The Index includes a Guide to Sculpture, Mural Decorations, Biographical Notes, Ground Plan. ; Beautiful photo reproductions of the Exposition buildings, sculpture, and paintings and explanatory text by the author who was with the U of CA and was the Chairman of the Western Advisory Committee for the Expo. ; 8vo
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35.00 USD

Pennell, JosephTHE GRAPHIC ARTS Modern Men and Modern MethodsChicago, IL Scammon Lectures . The Art Institute Of Chicao 1921 First Edition Hardcover This is a hardcover book without a dust jacket. The book is tight, bright, and clean except for a spot on the front edges (fore-edges) of the book. The cover are a brown cloth. The front cover has a black ink border edge and the title is in gilt on the cover and the spine. The end papers are clean as are the pages (except the front edge spot) . The front cover has a slight bump to the bottom corner There is a faint touch of wear starting at the top of the spine. The complete publisher entered on the title page is "The Scammon Lectures for 1920 Published for the Art Institute of Chicago by the University of Chicago Press Chicago Illinois". Photos throughout, plus a few diagrams. ; 8vo; 315 pages
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34.00 USD

Peters, Harriet with Dave Stirling and Dick RomeROCKY MOUNTAINANIA Or (A Tenderfoot's Dictionary) Denver, CO Rome Creations, Distributor 1940 Sixth Edition Softcover Very Good with no dust jacket Illustrated by Richardson Rome Soft cover book with a paper cover. There is a stain at top of the spine and a little wear at the top and bottom of the spine and corners. There is also a former owner gift note on the first page. Otherwise, the book is clean and tightly bound. Example of a fun book with imaginative definitions: Eagle - Usually a hawk. Wonderfully illustrated in woodblock cuts by Richardson Rome, artist-etcher. ; 8vo
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16.00 USD

Petty, G. HarveyA VISIT WITH RFD "Ozarkalligrapher" (Raymond F. Deboll, Calligrapher)Chicago, IL Alpha Beta Press 1974 First Edition Hardcover This is a softcover book about the scrivener, Raymond F. DeBoll, of Arkansas. The book is his story and is profusely illustrated with examples of delightful calligraphy and design used in books, magazines, letterheads, signs, broadsides, brochures. 30 pages. The story nicely includes his wife throughout. The cover is a soft mustard art paper that sourrounds the spine and the stapled binding. The book was printed in two colors. The cover and interior pages are in fine condition - tight, bright, crisp, and clean. There are no marks or writing. Well cared for. Limited to 2000 copies. ; 4to; 30 pages
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19.00 USD

Pope, Arthur UphamCATALOGUE OF A LOAN EXHIBITION OF EARLY ORIENTAL CARPETS Chicago The Art Club Of Chicago 1926 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ with no dust jacket Remarkable copy in very good plus condition. In beige paper wrappers, illustrated throughout in black and white and color. Wrappers and pages are clean aside from some pencil underlining in two pages of the introduction, and a few isolated water spots near edge of front wrapper. Binding is very tight. Edges of wrappers are bent around text block. ; 4to
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85.00 USD

Redman, Stephanie A.TAKING THE LEAP INTO NEW MEDIA Cincinatti, OH North Light Books 1999 0891349537 / 9780891349532 First Edition Softcover Fine This is a large size softcover book in a self dust jacket (with foldover flps) . Beautifully illustrated in color. Tight, bright, crisp, and very clean. Appears to be unread. 15 top print designers share how they reinvented their businesses to expand into multimedia and the web. Case studies. ; 4to
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18.00 USD

Robbins, Rick and Art Homer (editors)CUTBANK Spring/Summer 1978 Missoula, MT Cutbank 1978 Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket This is a softcover periodical of poetry, prose, and reviews. There is sunning to the uncreased spine and has a little sunning at the very edges of the cover. There is a tiny, short former owner note on the reverse of the front cover. The interior pages are clean. There are handsome black and white reproductions of woodblocks by Jim Wood of scenes from The Trial by Kafka. ; Vol. 10; 8vo
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14.00 USD

Rothenberg, David and Marta Ulvaeus (Editors)WRITING ON WATER A Terra Nova BookCambridge, MA MIT Press 2001 0262182114 / 9780262182119 First Edition Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket This is a First Edition hardcover book in a dust jacket. The book is in as new condition - gift condition. The book has been finely bound in a dark blue cloth with a bluish-silver metallic ink title on the spine. Fine condition - tight, crisp, clean, no marks or writing. Perfect end papers and pages. The dust jacket is equally crisp and clean with no wear. Not clipped. There were many contributing authors - Bopb Braine, Robert Grudin, Wilson Harris, George Keithley, David Morse, Octavio Paz, Sidneyu Perkowitz, Eva Salzman, Ted Steinberg, Peter Warshall. Contains some science, stories, poems, essays, artwork, photographs in black and white - all about water. Second in the series of Terra Nova books from MIT Press. ; 4to; 288 pages
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28.80 USD

Schider, FritzAN ATLAS OF ANATOMY FOR ARTISTS New York Dover Publications 1957 Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket This is a hardcover book in a dust jacket. The book would be in fine condition if not for a former owner name in the corner of the end paper and two remnants of tape on the bottom edge and out of sight. The unclipped dust jacket has edge wear and some tape remaining from a former owner mend on the bottom edge. Fully illustrated. Third American Edition. ; 4to
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17.00 USD

Short, Ernest H.BLAKE New York Frederick A Stokes Company Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket British Artists Edited by S. C. Kaines Smith. Small size soft paper boards is clean, tight, bright with just a hint of wear at top and bottom of spine. Black and white plates of Blake art. ; 12mo
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14.00 USD

Shubnikov, A. V. with V. A. KoptsikSYMMETRY In Science and Art New York, NY Plenum Press 1974 0306307596 / 9780306307591 First American Edition Hardcover This is a hardcover book in a dust jacket. This book has been edited by David Harker. The book is tight, bright, and very clean. There is a former owner name written on the front free end paper. All other pages are crisp, clean, and without marks or writing. The dust jacket is also quite crisp and clean. There is some darkening to the top white background edge of the jacket. Illustrated in black and white line drawings within the text as well as formulas and graphs. ; 8vo; 420 pages
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48.00 USD

Simpson, Gretchen DowGRETCHEN'S ABCNew York Harper Collins Publishers / Laura Geringer 1991 0060256451 / 9780060256456 First Edition Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket This is a First Edition hardcover book in a dust jacket in fine condition. This is a bright, crisp, clean book with an equally clean and crisp dust jacket. The white background sparkles. There are no marks or writing. No wear. This book contains reproductions of paintings depicting common objects in our lives, but seen in a new way, alphabetically. Many of these paintings were used in various issues of the New Yorker magazine. The cover painting captures a portion of the U. S. Flag as it might appear if rippled in a breeze. The dust jacket crisp condition protected in a mylar see-through, removable cover. ; Square 4to
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35.00 USD

Smith, F. R.PEWTER WORKLondon Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. 1930 First Edition Hardcover This is a hardcover book in a dust jacket from the 'Pitmans' Craft For All Series'. The covers are a yellow and the spine is a soft green cloth, The , jacket has an ornate design in black and white. The binding is tight, the covers strong and without wear, however there is little spot and some darkening to the top edge. The pages are crisp and clean. There are no marks or writing. The dust jacket shows wear - some closed tears, a little chipping to the corners, a tiny ship on the rear edge of the spine, some soiling to the front panel and spine which has a white background. It is now protected in a new, archival, see-through, and removable mylar cover which makes the book and jacket appear bright and cared for. There is a handsome lithograph of a cigarette box with pewter decoration used as the frontispiece for the book. There are many other illustrations in black and white throughout the book. ; 8vo; 113 pages
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28.00 USD

Spofford, Harriet PrescottART DECORATION APPLIED TO FURNITURENew York, NY Harper & Brothers 1877 First Edition Hardcover Handsome hardbound book in very good to near fine condition. Covers in rich green cloth with bright gilt and black filled highly ornate blindstamped design on front cover and spine. Beveled edges. Coated end papers. All edges are bright gilt. The contents are clean and in good condition except for foxing on title page, frontispiece and tissue guard and wherever there are tissue guards. A slight hint of corner wear. Former owner name on title page in old ink. Book is solidly bound, however the rear end paper has split. . Profusely illustrated, most in-text. 237 pages, 2 pages of advertising. Any faults diminished in comparison to the beauty of the book cover and the quality condition of the paper. Protected in see-through, removable acetate jacket. The book has been well cared for. The only faults are a result of the foxing to the end papers with offsetting. This book has very bright gilt The fomer owner name is Scott Henry Perky. There is a Perky by that name who was the only surviving son of Henry Perky, inventor, lawyer, Nebraska Congressman, businessperson and who invented shredded wheat. ; 8vo; 237 pages
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590.00 USD